March 30, 2013
This card was so simple I can’t believe it. It was inspired by the most recent challenge in the Simply My Digital Studio Challenges group on Facebook.
It’s an 8″ by 8″ scrapbook page (Be of Good Cheer Kit) converted to a 4.25″ by 5.5″ card. I removed the photo box and stitching (it wasn’t wide enough and pixelated when I stretched it), widened the red ribbon slightly, added a new straight stitching embellishment, and exported it as a JPEG. Then I added that JPEG to a photo box on a new page so that I could add a mat, and, ta-duh, a card. I’m sure this is cheating.
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December 9, 2012
Here is the little sign that I made to go with Mom’s Christmas doorbell, which plays Christmas carols when you press the big red button.
It’s essentially the same as last year’s sign, but with MDS2 I was able to color in Santa’s boots, make his eyes blue, make his gloves Gumball Green, and color in his belt Basic Black. The Santa is 24 from 25 & Counting stamp brush set. I colored the number 24 with Whisper White so that it wasn’t visible, though the Presents (an embellishment from Candy Cane Lane) hide it fairly well without that.
The card is ever so slightly hybrid. I colored in Santa’s face and ears with a Pink Pirouette marker. That was so much easier than piecing punches behind his face and ears.
I slipped the card into a clear envelope to protect it from the weather, and put it up on the door frame with some Command Strips. Now we’re ready for those holiday deliveries and visitors!
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November 16, 2012
Here’s another layout for the MDS 30 Days of Christmas Class being taught this month by Heather Summers and Martha Inchley. This page is for Saturday Sketch Take 2, and it also fits the MDS challenge for this week to use October 2012 downloads.
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Background: Christmas Cheer – pattern 4 at 30% opacity
- Stamps:
- Embellishments:
- Punches
- Candy Cane Lane – pattern 1
- Rounded Corner Punch, filled with Whisper White, with a Not Quite Navy Mat
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October 1, 2012
While I love my Winter Photo Booth swaps, I realized that people might want a simpler option. For my second swap for the Chattanooga Regional, I decided to create an MDS card that was easy to make and that could easily be made as a non-digital card. I CASEd this design from Julie Leblanc of Kewlstamps. I used the Coloring Tool in MDS2 to make each letter in the sentiment a different color.
To make the card a hybrid, I printed out the Whisper White layer only, rounded the corners with a Circle Punch, and then mounted the layer on either Gumball Green (as shown), Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, or Primrose Petals. I also accented the images with Dazzling Details to add a bit of shine.
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Cardstock Back: Gumball Green (as shown), Raspberry Ripple, Summer Starfruit, or Primrose Petals
- Background: Whisper White, with rounded corners
- Stamps:
- Punches
- Scallop Square Punch (included in the original MDS install)
- Postage Stamp Punch
- Square Punch (included in the original MDS install)
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July 31, 2012
I decided to find a way to create chevrons without the punch or stamp. To get the effect, I used the Large Photo Corner Punch to get the effect—super easy and super flexible. Just flip the punches, match them up, and group them to make a line of zigzags!
Here is the supply list for the card:
- Background: Whisper White
- Chevrons: Large Photo Corner Punch with color picked from the light polka dots behind the deer
- Dasher Focal Image: Christmas Jingle – Circle 1
- Square Punch, reshaped to a rectangle, in Old Olive with a 2 pt. Chocolate Chip Mat
- Sentiment: Jolly Jingles – Merry Christmas to All
- Embellishments:
- Basic Pearls and Rhinestones – Rhinestone Small on the snowflakes
- Brad – Real Red for Rudolph’s nose
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December 16, 2011
The sixteenth card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge is a digital remake of a card that I made in a workshop at Daisy Lane (a scrapbooking store) in Mattoon, Illinois. My photo of the original card is really fuzzy, but you can see the idea. If you’re interested in making the paper kind of cards, it’s a great card for using up little scraps—and it’s super easy since all you have to do is punch a bunch of small circles.
Here are the details on how I made it in My Digital Studio:
- Background Layer 1: Holly Berry Bouquet—Pattern 10
- Background Layer 2: Very Vanilla with Real Red mat
- Tree made up of stacked punches: Real Red Circle Punch behind Perfect Pennants Circle Punch 2 in Certainly Celery
- Star made up of stacked Star punches in Real Red and Certainly Celery
- Embellishment: Grosgrain Ribbon and Knot in Certainly Celery
- Sentiment: Something for Christmas—Merry Christmas, stacked and slightly offset in Real Red and Certainly Celery
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December 5, 2011
The fourth card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge uses the faux embossing technique explained by Alesha Wells. It’s a fairly simple look, but I like the effect. I tried adding another element on top, and it seemed like too much. Sometimes simple is best.
Here are the details on how I made him:
- Background: Cherry Cobbler
- Stamp Brush Set: Bulb from Tags Til Christmas in Cherry Cobbler with a Drop Shadow set to Blur: -6, Opacity: -50%, and Pixel Offset: x: 0, y: 0
- Embellishment: ’tis the season from the Trim the Tree set
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December 4, 2011
My card for this week’s Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge (SQSC15) is the fourth card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge. Here’s the original sketch:
The scalloped circle focal point reminded me of fabric in an embroidery hoop, so I decided to try to go with an old-fashioned, vintage look. Here’s my version of the card, using various papers in either Certainly Celery or Old Olive:
Here’s the breakdown on the elements:
- Background: Certainly Celery base with Holiday Harmony II—8
- Back Rectangle: Certainly Celery with Vintage Overlay—11
- Middle Rectangle: Brocade in Certainly Celery
- Top Rectangle: Holiday Harmony II—11
- Circle: Very Vanilla with Old Olive
- Stamp Brush Sets: Something for Christnas—Ornaments 1, 2, 4, & 5 and Merry Christmas
- Embellishments: Small Rhinestones and Certainly Celery Grosgain Bow
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December 3, 2011
I’ve posted drafts of the third card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge on the My Digital Studio site, but I haven’t posted it here yet (plus I made a few extra changes since those drafts. I originally found the design for the punch Santa on Jackie Topa’s Addicted to Stamping site. I had to adjust a few things to make the card work in the My Digital Studio software, but he’s pretty close to her original.
Here are the details on how I made him:
- Background: Homemade Cherry glitter paper and Old Olive Dotted Stripe
- Colors: Homemade glitter paper in Cherry, Olive, White, and Suede Plus plus regular Blush Blossom and Whisper White
- Punches, all with a Basic Black mat:
- Circle for body and pompom
- Medium Heart for right arm and nose
- Large Heart for hat and hair
- Small Heart for gloves
- Word Window for cuffs, belt, bottom of hat
- Oval and Modern Label for bag
- Butterfly for beard
- Embellishment: Celebrate the Season from the Trim the Tree set, on a rectangle of white glitter paper with a Bashful Blue mat.
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December 2, 2011
The second card in my 25 Holiday Cards Challenge came from a Fiskars page that focused on Piecing Together the Holidays. They’re doing cool and interesting things with punches and stencils, and I decided to see if I could create similar cards in My Digital Studio. The Fiskar’s card used Silver bells, but otherwise, I think I managed to “piece together” a similar card. I especially like the watercolor look I managed with the green background.
Here are the details:
- Background: Real Red Small Polka Dot
- Main image background: Three Square Punches, reshaped into rectangles and layered. The bottom and middle layer are Certainly Celery. On the middle layer, I added a full drop shadow at position 0,0 to give the impression of a slightly darker piece behind it. The top layer is from the Vintage Overlays Designer Series Paper. I think it’s Texture 8.
- Stamp Brush Sets: Leaf from A Cardinal Christmas in Whisper White, and Pine Bough from Lovely as a Tree in Garden Green. Snowflakes is from Best Wishes and More in Garden Green (some 100% opacity and some at 63% opacity)
- Jingle Bells: Homemade Mustard glitter paper with Circle and Square (reshaped) punches in Basic Black to create the lines.
- Embellishment: Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon and Bow
- Sentiment: Typed in the Bell MT font in Real Red
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